YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 881, 21 April 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

EUROPEAN. Stock Market still Unsettled. Wheat Advancing. London, April 20. The stock market is still unsettled. Consols have slightly recovered. The extreme fall in Russian stock last week was 15 per cent. Wheat has further advanced. Arrived —Timaru, from Port Chalmers. AUSTRALIAN. Sydney, April 20. The Queensland Government have telegraphed to the authorities at Hong Kong, warning them that the Northern goldfields cannot possibly support the extensive influx of Chinese, and urgently impressing the necessity for an entire stoppage of the immigration. There is no tent accommodation at Fitzroy for 1700 Chinese who have gone there, and it is feared that great sickness and starvation will result. INTERPROYINCIAL. [pee press agency.] Auckland, April 20. The Australia sails for Sydney at six. The steamer will meet the Taranaki outside Manukau bar with the mails for the South. Malcolm Barley has been fined £4 for driving fifty sheep to the junction at Cards. The defendant said he purchased 1000 sheep at Taranaki from a person who guaranteed them free from scab, and had paid 6d per head for inspection on lauding. Dunedin, April 20.

The Governor is expected to arrive tomorrow at noon. He will be received by a guard of honor at the Dunedin Railway Station. A Royal salute will be fired, and an address presented. The Harbor Board’s revenue for the past twleve mouths was £14,190, and the expenditure £8607. The balance after paying interest on the loans is £621.

A drying kiln at Anderson and Co.’s flour mill was destroyed by fire last night. The premises were fully insured in the Standard and New Zealand offices for £4OOO.

The Mayor yesterday was asked to proclaim to-morrow a holiday on the occasion of the arrival of the Governor. He declined to do so unless a petition was presented to him by all the shopkeepers in the principal part of Dunedin. (From a correspondent of the Press.) Timaru, April 20. The Hon. Donald Reid visited Timaru today, on his way to Wellington. He was interviewed by some of the local bodies in reference to various public works. Fatal Accident at Oamaru. [From a Correspondent of the Press.) Dunedin, April 20. Two of the insurance companies interested offer a reward of £250 for such evidence as will lead to the conviction of the persons who set lire to Macdonald’s store, Kaitangata. At Oamaru yesterday a boy named Collins was drowned. ' In company with two others he was paddling in the surf on the beach, and venturing too far out was caught by a heavy breaker, thrown on his back, and carried to sea by the under current. When last seei by his companions, his arms were only visible. Diligent search has been made, but as yet the body has not been recovered,

The concluding paragraphs of the petition of the unemployed which McLaren declares he will present to the Governor, reads : “As your Excellency is doubtless aware, the Hospital, Benevolent Asylum, and Industrial School are overcrowded, and the authorities are compelled to turn a deaf ear to the cry of suffering and misery. Homeless children have been turned out in the streets for want of an asylum. The Fever Hospital has been closed against our families, and we and our little ones have been treated worse than the beasts of the field. Unlike the birds of the air, we cannot fly away to other colonies where work can be found, and owing to the distance of Wellington, we are unable to present our wants and wrongs before the seat of Government. Humbly beseech your Excellency to take our hard case into consideration, and, if necessary, advise the Government to employ their AgentGeneral to contract another loan for the purpose of chartering steamers to convey us away from the colony in which we and our families have only a prospect of future starvation.” The Times is severe on the movement, says few of the signatures are genuine, and urges that McLaren should be kept in a backyard till after the Governor has gone.